Windows

Get a better admin UI eg. GodMode
Create a new folder on the desktop with the following string: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Reboot every 24h due to a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bug check eg. Blue screen.
- This seems to be solved in my case by re-enabling a page file since I was not using one in Win 8.1
- [UPDATE] It's now confirmed. Re-enabling a paging file solved this bug check. I don't get the DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bug check anymore.

Installed Start10 to get a proper start menu. I really don't like the addition of live tiles on my start menu. For Start10, see here

Some small annoyances

The notification center in Win10 is a PITA. For example, I get a new email in Outlook 2013 and when I've read it, the notification still hangs around in the notification center. I need to manually go in and clear it. I really hope they fix this ASAP.

Updated on the 12th of August

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With the release of Visual Studio 2012 and C# 4.5, [CallerMemberName] makes its entrance. With this new awesome feature you can write INotifyPropertyChanged code without having to worry about renaming properties and keeping strings in sync for the call to OnPropertyChanged(…).

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I've spent some time on the Commander project this weekend, a lot of nice changes have been implemented and one of the bigger changes is the new Command API that let's a user/developer to write his/her own commands and plug it in. The built in commands uses this as well. I will continue on this for a bit more, but it seems to be working.

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After needing to do some work on Windows again, needing the command window (cmd.exe) I got really pissed. I need something better, something easy and something that doesn't limit me in my work. You know, like in Linux with Bash or Sh.

So, I've spent a couple of hours hacking on something that is currently in a working state, a easy to use command line tool that gives the user a proper Window with tabs and some nice colored output etc.

With Windows 7, you can use the bcdedit tool to boot into vhd files. This is really cool and useful if you, like me work as a Developer or if you are a IT professional responsible for testing new technology.